Winter animal deaths from gritters..

[Digby]

...and antifreeze etc.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341137/Hu...

Just a heads up!

[Jasandjules]

Thank you.

We wash our dog's feet when we get back from a walk to mitigate this.

[GokTweed]

Give them a shot of vodka and a bath

[dhf]

Our Councils ran out out of salt these last couple of years and used chemical fertilizer instead

[GokTweed]

dhf said:

Our Councils ran out out of salt these last couple of years and used chemical fertilizer instead

So, if a car crashes and bursts into flames.... or even someone drops a fag onto the road you're going to hear a big bang?

[pikeyboy]

GokTweed said:

dhf said:

Our Councils ran out out of salt these last couple of years and used chemical fertilizer instead

So, if a car crashes and bursts into flames.... or even someone drops a fag onto the road you're going to hear a big bang?

Only if it has a load of peroxide in the boot.

[otolith]

Ethylene glycol is toxic, odourless with a sweet taste. Screenwash doesn't contain ethylene glycol, antifreeze does. Screenwash contains methanol, which is also toxic, but smells and tastes nasty and so is not attractive to pets. Usually, if pets are being poisoned by antifreeze, it's because some sociopath is feeding it to them on purpose.

I would think that the substance in rock salt which is dangerous when ingested by pets is, erm, salt.

[mybrainhurts]

Salt? What a load of bks.

The sheep on Winnats lick it on the road and from the grit bins all year round. No harm done...

[Robb F]

mybrainhurts said:

Salt? What a load of bks.

The sheep on Winnats lick it on the road and from the grit bins all year round. No harm done...

dog ≠ sheep

[mybrainhurts]

Robb F said:

dog ≠ sheep

Absolute cobblers.

They've both got four legs and run around naked.

[otolith]

I think the main difference there is that sheep don't have a compulsion to devour anything which isn't nailed down!

[Robb F]

mybrainhurts said:

Absolute cobblers.

They've both got four legs and run around naked.

Well clearly you're misinformed. Sheep are made from wool, and wool is what jumpers are made from.
Jumpers = clothes.

[mybrainhurts]

Bugger...you live and learn

[otolith]

Robb F said:

Well clearly you're misinformed. Sheep are made from wool, and wool is what jumpers are made from.
Jumpers = clothes.

I have it on good authority there is some meat in there somewhere too.

[Robb F]

otolith said:

I have it on good authority there is some meat in there somewhere too.

Well the legs, duhh.

[GokTweed]

boy said:

GokTweed said:

dhf said:

Our Councils ran out out of salt these last couple of years and used chemical fertilizer instead

So, if a car crashes and bursts into flames.... or even someone drops a fag onto the road you're going to hear a big bang?

Only if it has a load of peroxide in the boot.

I thought the nitrate in the fertilliser would do the job on its own?

[Marty63]

mybrainhurts said:

Salt? What a load of bks.

The sheep on Winnats lick it on the road and from the grit bins all year round. No harm done...

that looks dangerous

someone should take it in the grit box................................

[otolith]

GokTweed said:

I thought the nitrate in the fertilliser would do the job on its own?

Dry nitrates will act as an oxidiser, but you've got to give them a fuel. Ammonium nitrate won't burn but can be detonated, more energetically in the presence of organic fuel.

Thing is, the stuff they use as deicer isn't a nitrate - it's urea.

[mybrainhurts]

Marty63 said:

mybrainhurts said:

Salt? What a load of bks.

The sheep on Winnats lick it on the road and from the grit bins all year round. No harm done...

that looks dangerous

someone should take it in the grit box................................

You're Welsh, aren't you..?

[GokTweed]

otolith said:

GokTweed said:

I thought the nitrate in the fertilliser would do the job on its own?

Dry nitrates will act as an oxidiser, but you've got to give them a fuel. Ammonium nitrate won't burn but can be detonated, more energetically in the presence of organic fuel.

Thing is, the stuff they use as deicer isn't a nitrate - it's urea.

Well a car crash would provide the heat and fuel. So the roads just smell like piss now?